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About Corvallis daily gazette. (Corvallis, Benton County, Oregon) 1909-1909 | View Entire Issue (May 20, 1909)
VOL. I. NO. 16 PRICE FIVE CENTS CORVALLIS, BENTON COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, MAY ,20 1909, HER OF OLYMPIC WEDS FORREST SMITHSON MARRIES MISS CATHERINE TRACY. QUIET SERVICE AT SEATTLE World's Champion Hurdler and Pride of OAC Takes Unto Himself a Wife Much to the Surprise of His Friends in Oregon. Forrest Smithson, champion hurdler of the world, and Miss Katherine Tracy, of New York City, were married quiet ly Tuesday afternoon at 'Seattle, as the result of a romance that began two years ago, when " Smithson was ta stu dent at Yale. The wedding -was prac tically secret, as the only witness, be sides the officiating minister. Dr. M. A. Matthews, was Brailey Gish, the well-known Broadway High School ath lete. Gish was best man. The wedding took place at the resi dence of Dr. Matthews, the Manse, at 3:30 o'clock and was followed by a din ner with covers laid for three, the new ly wedded couple and Mr. Gish. Smithson and his bride left for Port land the same evening : Miss Tracy's relatives live in New York City and it is said that none knew of her approaching wedding to the handsome young athlete who has carried off many honors for Yale in the track meets. She is heiress to a considerable - fortune. : smithson sprang into prominence as a member of the track -team of Oregon Droad jumper and hurdler. From OAC he went to Yale and soon became recog nized as a world-champion hurdler. Last summer he won the - 110-meter hurdle event at the Olympic games, making a new record of 15 seconds flat, whirh stands not onlv as the world's mark for this distance, but .also is the fastest time ever made over the more generally run distance of 110 yards, He appeared in Seattle a few days ago at the Armory track meet and was the star in the two events in which he ran The announcement of Forrest Smith son's marriage came as a surprise to most of his Portland and QAC friends. Smithson s athletic prowess has ever made him an attraction with the fair sex and. he is reputed to .have had a large number of affairs de oeur. A Portland friend of Smithson said Miss Tracy was one of his jnost ardent .admirers in New York and was one of the large crowd that saw the Oregon athletes off on their cross-country trip to Portland. That the friendship has ripened into love and now into matri- - mony is one of the .surprises Smithson has been fond of preparing for his friends.' . ' ' Smithson was last seen .publicly in Portland at the Columbia University track meet whfen he broke the world's 50-yard .high hurdles records, ' He was later reported as breaking the same record in Seattle. At the Olympic games at London he made a very envi able record and returned to Portland with Kelly and Gilbert to be honored . by the whole city. Clean Up Help Wanted, This" Is Junior Flunk Day Today is Junior "Flunk Day" out at the college. The entire Junior class is staying, out of school, and the result is that the college walks are being much improved. The male section of the class was seen early this morning mak ing their way to the campus with picks, shovels, hoes and rakes, and by ten o'clock the grass on the edge of the walks had been trimmed off and raked into piles ready to be hauled off. Many other improvements could be noted, al so, and the wortc done Dy the juniors today is most commendable. Usually the class has gone on a pic nic and studies have been seriously in terfered with, so that the faculty put a veto on absence, but the Juniors d termined to flunk, according to " the time-honored custom, only they are putting the day off to some practical use. ' ; ,' : " During the day the class enjoyed a straw ride, four large hay wagons be ing pressed into service to haul the lads and lasses around the city. They made a jolly party and were cheered all along the route. ' ORB FOR CLEAN UP DAY THE LADIES AUXILIARY DOING NOBLY Union Memorial Service. - J. Schrack and W. H. Howell, the committee appointed by Ellsworth Post G. A R. to arrange for the annual memorial service, announce that it will be held this year Sunday, May 23, at eight o'clock p. m. at the opera house. The members of the Post and of the Women's Relief Corps will assemble at headquarters in Odd Fellows' hall and promptly at 7:45 p. m. will march in a body to the, opera house, where Rev. H. H. Hubbell will preach the sermon. ' The music will be under the direction of Prof. Gaskins. ' A cordial invitation is extended to all to attend this service. Sells-Floto Show EVERYBODY SHOULD ASSIST Open Letter from Booster Waggoner Calling on the People of CorvaKis to Rally in Aid of the Good Cause fcr a Clean City. Insurance ! Promptly Paid TTROV - Mrs. R. C. Wills was most agreeably surprised this morning by receiving a visit from J. W. Day, of Portland, and George E. Schaefer, of Salem, who, as representatives of the New York Life Insurance Company, called and gave her a check for $3674.10, in payment of file policy and accrued dividends which her late husband held in that substan tial company. The extra $674.10 was the greatest surprise of all, Mrs. Wills only expect ing to face value of the policy, $3000, but the company, with that strict care of its patron's interest, for which it is noted, figured up what the policy had earned while Mr. Wills was carrying it and promptly paid the full amount. E ADVERTISING BOOSTER WAGGONER IS SENDIKG OUT GOOD LITERATURE The committee appointed by the La dies? Auxiliary to canvass the city on behalf of the plan to make Saturday, , May 22, a general clean up day is meet ing wita the statement that it is diffi cult to obtain help to do the necessary work. This is an opportunity for per sons who are unemployed and" for the students who want work to get it and all who will help are requested to com municate at once with Mrs. E. R. Bry son, 242 North Seventh street, phone 186, and they will be given employment. In this connection it is also thought that permanent places can be secured for quite a number of capable young men to care for .lawns during the summer. Vibration. Natures own remedy. 'The demand is still great. It has absolutely cured , a bad case of appendicitis without an operation. Also many other ills. See demonstrator, 220 Third street, phone 234 5-20-lt-D-W. The Sells-Floto shows which appear here May 21, are not affiliated in any way with the circus trust. -It is an in dependent show, and the only large en terprise of this kind -which is not ton trolled by the "association interests". Tie Sells-Floto show goes where it will; stays as many dsys as it likes and ar ranges its route without consulting any one outside the management ' of this great enterprise. The Sells-Floto show stHl gives a street parade. It will enter no agree ment with other shows -by which this feature of circus day is eliminated. A street parade is a part of a circus ticket. The Sells-Floto show cares not if other shows make the same cities in which it appears. Its performance dif fers so widely from the usual circus per formance that it does not consider the present day show as real opposition. Its features are many and the first prize Armour hors'es a great card. There are no queer-thrillers which hold the attention of the spectators for five seconds, then leave the crowd disgruntl ed and disappointed. The bill setting forth the glories and Jeatures of this unparalleled aggregation of traveling acts and stupendous congress of all that is greatest and best in the world of the sawdust arena, state that this year the show is greater and grander than ever and that many entirely new as well as the best of last year's acts will be seen, The Sells-Floto circus will undoubtedly be accorded a large patronage here. A Patriotic Song. When the G. A. R. encampment meets here in June the veterans will hear a song that will awaken memories ot years long passed. The song referred to has been written by Prof. Z. M. Parvin, one of the lead ing musicians in Portland, and for a long time the professor of music at Will amette University. It is entitled, "Back to the Days of Abraham, "and words and music are both inspiring. Prof. Parvin will be here during the encampment and will supply all who mav want copies of the song at the low price of 10 cents. . . It begins to look as if we were really going to have a clean up day next Saturday. The Ladies' Auxiliary Chip has been at work in earnest canvassing the town for the sale of clean up. tags and already the old trash is being gath ered into neat piles ready for the wag ons. " - Vi-- It is not anticipated that there will te any difficulty in cleaning the residence portion of the city of trash about the yards but we notice : in passing; about many old chunks of wood, planks, parts of wagons, broken hay racks etc, lying in the streets and alleys. Iftheownere of such things intend to use them for fire wood, they should be immediately sawed and put in the woodshed or at any rate somewhere out of sight. , Mahv of the business houses . have bundled out such old traps J on ihe streets intersecting Main street, and they are unsightly in the extreme. Men who have subscribed liberally to the fund for a Greater Corvaliis,- allow such things as obstruct and litter .f the streets to remain along side ; their busi ness houses, r , Won't " they ;:' please straighten things , up -a little before next Saturday" -in!' If such old poles, racks and crates are not to be made use of will citizens not gather them together so the wagons can haul them away. A lot of decayed telegraph poles are lying about the streets. If they are not removed be fore "Clean Up Day" the City author ities should use the power vested in them and see that such things do not longer remain an eyesore to all passers I such officers as have the power and "whose duty it is to act in this mat teT we say, it is not the writer of these lines who is speaking to . you, but it is the ladies of Corvaliis,; supported in their present efforts hj every gentle man in our city. If you do not do your duty in this matter after such a call you will hardly have the temerity to feel at ease on next election day for all will remember your neglect of duty. This is a battle in which the ladies are attacking that which opposes our prog ress and is preventing us from taking our place with sister cities. They are in dead earnest and must win. Let us do our part and we will have a grand victory and no one will feel, defeat. G. B. Waggoner. Art Exhibit Coming. May 26, the Art Department of OAC expects to have an exhibit of about 100 pictures here from the League Exhibit of Art Treasures from Fort Scott, Kan sas. These pictures will be on exhibi tion here one week following their ar rival and every one will have an oppor tunity to see them. They will be hung in the rooms of the art department and not at Shepard HallSvhere the Chicago exhibit was displayed.- It is not very often that such works are seen here and everyone who does not see them will miss a rare treat Barometer. Four Score years of Useful Life FACTS IN CONDENSED FORM Fine Folder and Pamphlet Now Being Mailed to Hundreds of Inquirers in J the East Who Have Signified Their Intentions of Coming Here. ' ' ' , Newspaper Man For Governor President Taft has honored another newspaper man when he nominated Walter E. Clark, Washington corres pondent of the Seatle Post-Intelligencer, a member of the New York Sun Bureau, to be Governor of Alaska. Governor W. B. Hoggatt resigned, to take effect October 1; in order that he might devote more attention, to his business interests in Alaska. " Soon after March 4, he in formed -the President -that he intended to retire before the close of his term and asked that his successor be selected. . At a Cabinet meeting last week Mr. Clark was chosen by the President upon the advice of several members of his Cabinet who knew Mr. Clark intimately Mr. Clark has the erputation of being better informed upon Alaskan affairs than any man outside the territory and it it because of this knowledge and his demonstrated ability that he was nom inated. Regarding Clark "s appoointment as Governor of Alaska, the statement was made at the White House that " the action was taken on account of the im portance of getting a special consider ation for Alaska with a view to bring ing together conflicting interests and permitting the natural industrial de velopment of the country. The Daily Gazette, 50c per month. . - During the past few days, George A. Waggoner, the official publicity man of Corvaliis, has been busily engaged in the work of mailing descriptive adver tising matter to a host of Eastern in quirers whose names have been secured partly from the Southem Pacific adver tising department at Portland and part ly by a personal canvass among the re cent new comers for the names of those whom they know are talking of coming to the coast. Two thousand names in all have been secured and already eight hundred ans wering letters have been mailed. In each letter a pamphlet and a folder, brimful of facts about Corvaliis and Benton county have been enclosed. This folder has four pages of -i closely printed matter and is certain to attra; considerable attention to this section of country, the information being retiabL and so arranged as to be easily read. The pamphlet contains twelve pages of the best condensed matter that could be compiled. It is neatly printed, well bound and ranks as a little gem in the publicity line, being a brief compendium of iust that sort of. information which intending settlers are anxious for. In preparing' this pamphlet Mr. Wag goner has shown that he understands the art of advertising, the highest aim of .which is to attract and hold the at tention of the public from start to fin ish. a result which certainly has been attained in this first publicity effort, and which will be fully carried out the descriptive matter for future circu lation. New Depot For McMinnville. . The new depot, the necessity of which the citizens of McMinnville have been so long and persisently urging upon the Southern Pacific officials, now seem as sured. General Superintendent L. R Fields, accompanied by the division en-: gineer, was met at the depot by the business men of the city, and plans were submitted by the former for a new $10,000 passenger and freight depot to be erected there within the next few months. The new building will be lo cated on or near the present site, but the track will be placed on the opposite or east side so as to obviate the neces sity of crossing the track in .order to reach the depot. - Read the Daily Gazette for all news. Conference Tennis Tournament The Conference tennis, tournamen which will be played tomorrow and Saturday on the Multnomah courts in Portland between OAC; U. of 0.;U. of W; Idaho, Whitman and, Washington State College, promises to be an excit ing contest. OAC will be represented in the singles by Standish and in the doubles by Mansfield and Boullan. The men are putting in - some good practice work and hope to make a creditable showing. , The sessions of the various branches of the Odd Fellows Lodge in session at Albany during the past few days has been a complete surprise to all friends across the river. The hall and various lodge rooms were taxed to their utmost capacity and if a man was bow-legged he was so crowded he couldn't give the signs. Many a merry widow hat .. was punched into two-story proportions anc the committee in charge ot the accom modation bureau stored the wayfarin men away like sardines in a box. In stead of the expected 800 some 2000 people landed on the scene thus show ing that the order is growing some and that the membership have an eye to du siness. The Albany people hustled in tine shape to entertain their mends, Bowersox is a member of the reception committee and a wireless telegram last nisrht at 9:30 located mm 2 m les this side of Lebanon - hunting for bsds for his friends. , . , , On May twenty-first, Dr. L. V. Flint will round out eighty years of earthly life. For about half a century he has been a spiritualist, and to him this be lief has been all that stands for right and justice, kindliness and charity; that principal should never give way for present benefits; that it was living the life that told. That his failing powers at present are due simply to the disso lution of a ripe old age, and not to. dis ease, is a beautiful tribute to the living. He has been a vegetarian for more than fifteen years, uses no tobacco, wines, drug, tea or coffee anfl now, at eighty, can carry a philosophical argu ment to its conclusion, and attend to his financial affairs. All honor to a noble life," of -which twenty-three years have been spent in Benton county. Dr. Flint was born in Cayuga county, New York. In the early days of the California gold excitement he came out to the camps and struck it rich, return ing East to resume his practice. Years after, when obliged to take a long rest from overwork, his inclinations again turned to the Coast and he has since made this section his permanent home. Program for Saturday. The program for the Interscholastic Track meet Saturday will be as follows: 8 a. m. Automobile parade of the high school athletes through the town, and over the college grounds. 9. a. m. to 12 m. Preliminary events. 2:30 p. m. Finals. - 6 to 8:30 p. m. Banpuet at Waldo Hall. 8:30 to 11:59 p. m. Dance given by OAC student body. The Engineering Journal Staff Treat For Odd Fellows. To accommodate the large number of j Odd Fellows now in grand session at t Albany, the Corvaliis & Eastern R. R. has arranged to run a special excursion to Yaquina and Newport tomorrow, May 21,. to " give these visitors an op portunity to see old ocean. This train will leave Albany 7:30 a. m., Corvaliis 8 a. m,, and returning leave Yaquina 6 p.m., the ticket rates for the round trip being $1.50. The Northwest Journal of Engineer ing, one ot the ongntest puDiicauons: i i .- A -i l j.i . ! . . : : . IWbk. dents, now has a new staff, an election ' ." having been held last week at which R. L. Davidson was chosen editor, A. B. Abendroth, manager and V. P. 'Gia nella, assistant manager. These young men are well fitted for the positions and it is their intention to make the Journal as good a class publi- ; cation as it is possible to do. Plans for I the coming year's work have been out- lined and the entire class will take a j personal interest in the success of the I Journal. ; Dr. J. B. Patterson, who was for several years director of athletics at OAC, is now practicing his profession in Missouri. He has just been elected 1 3 an important position in one of the leading " New York City hospitals and will soon remove there to take up his work. Dr. Patterson was one of the first to suggest the building of a Y. M. C. A. hall at OAC. Our 45th Annua! Glearance Sale ends May 29th. Juit one week more for you to secure unequaled bargains EVERY ABTSCLE U THE STORE REDUCED U PRICE Contract Goods Excepted , Extra ; Special price s en s ling? an d W omen s this week on M Dints and Starts A SAF PLACE TO TRADE AGENTS SHOES
